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Insurance that gives and gives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
... at Lakeside Consultants, said the company had sold 55 Charity Life policies so far, however they're still in the underwriting stage. "We're off to a good start in terms of applications going coming in. We've already pledged $2 million to the charities ...

Zurich sets up Climate Change council

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008

Asteron selects Olicc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... had reduced their workload and costs for their business. "A life company like Asteron providing us with real time underwriting updates to our workflow system is a giant step for the life industry. A system that helps us to track all of the information ...

First State Super boosts insurance by two-thirds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
... to have insurance from other super funds recognised as part of their cover with First State Super, without onerous underwriting requirements," he said. The improvements came into effect at the beginning of this month by increasing the automatic basic ...

AIG's insurance web revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... insurance web revolution has taken an extra step forward with AIG's release of their latest website that fully integrates underwriting with business flow management and administration. "Thirty per cent of call centre inquiries concern insurance and anything ...

Comminsure motors along

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
... alive and well. The Commonwealth Bank's life and general insurance business, Comminsure, has moved to do its own underwriting on its car insurance product because it believes it can get greater value out of its retail network that way. Comminsure managing ...

MLC tailors critical illness underwriting

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
MLC has strengthened its underwriting business by creating the Critical Illness-Special Risk tool and by hiring additional experts to help advisers. Tracey Crowe, chief underwriter at MLC, said the Critical Illness-Special Risk tool would allow MLC ...

OneCare works

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
... competition," he said. The company will continue to make changes, Riley said, pointing to future upgrades of their underwriting business. "At the moment, we're looking to launch OneCare Express to the open market in November. It will feature an electronic ...

ING OneCare Express speeds up insurance

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
... Successfully launched earlier this year to ANZ financial planners, OneCare Express is a sophisticated desktop based portable underwriting engine where reflexive questions and multileveled medical history selections mean that cover or initial underwriting ...

Chinese walls and windows

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
... per cent stakes in investment banking ventures with Chinese partners which will allow them to engage directly in underwriting stock and bond sales. This may also give them brokerage licence advantages down the track Despite these rumoured setbacks in ...